[ranga227]

I am using Dreamweaver MX (I know pretty old) to do my web design projects. When I select Make document compliant it adds these two tags

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

At the beginning and

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

after the title tag

My question is whether this tag is necessary and what exactly does it do? Thanks in Advance

[anshu]

Actually, you don't need that XML tag unless you intend to serve your pages AS XML. In addition to that, leaving that link ABOVE the doctype will throw IE into QUIRKS mode - which you definitely do NOT want!